The Cricket Thread 2013

[olaftab]

You jinx pwa

Pot....Kettle!

These two are doing well, but they have to go on.

Indeed.

[PaulWinch again]

We have turned up here thinking we're going to cruise this, very poor.

[paul_e]

Prior clearly just had a mental lapse, there's no other justification for throwing his bat at one like that.

I'm still not going to judge them too much until we see the aussie reply, I genuinely think there's a lot of reward for the bowlers if they get the line and length right.  I think Jimmy could be frightening here.

[PaulWinch again]

Too many of our batsmen have got themselves out and that's the worry. It's also been like that for a while now.

[Chris Smith]

We have turned up here thinking we're going to cruise this, very poor.

I think you're under estimating the pressure, it's the Ashes and it's the first day of the first test and we're notoriously slow starters. Add to that the overcast conditions today favour the bowlers and Siddle always troubles England.

[PaulWinch again]

We have turned up here thinking we're going to cruise this, very poor.

I think you're under estimating the pressure, it's the Ashes and it's the first day of the first test and we're notoriously slow starters. Add to that the overcast conditions today favour the bowlers and Siddle always troubles England.

We should have bowled first then.

[Villan For Life]

We are poor starters in test series. Yes it's disappointing but let's reserve judgement until Jimmy & Co have a bowl.

[PaulWinch again]

They still need something to bowl at. Regardless of how we bowl, there is an ongoing issue with our batsmen getting in and getting themselves out. Cook, Pietersen, Trott and Prior all did that.

[Chris Smith]

We have turned up here thinking we're going to cruise this, very poor.

I think you're under estimating the pressure, it's the Ashes and it's the first day of the first test and we're notoriously slow starters. Add to that the overcast conditions today favour the bowlers and Siddle always troubles England.

We should have bowled first then.

Then we're batting last on a deteriorating pitch.

We haven't played well but it's 2 sessions from 15, plenty of time to put things right.

[walsall villain]

Ex player Pringle was on talk shite this morning. His view? Bat first. Why? It's cloudy and humid with hot weather to return by the end of the week.
Then he said siddle looked poor in build up games, what a judge!
He was a crap player in a crap era foe England and he has developed into a crap pundit too

[PaulWinch again]

We need to get at least 250 here.

[PaulWinch again]

Broad is making this pitch look decent.

[PaulWinch again]

Jinxed him again.

[PaulWinch again]

I don't blame Broad, but on the whole our batsmen have been very poor.

[PaulWinch again]

Bairstow gone, that was a good ball.